Lowell Lecture
A Conversation with Katharine Hayhoe, Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy
Date & Time
Sept. 27, 2023 at 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Location
Museum of Science
1 Science Park Boston, MA 02114
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on understanding the impacts of climate change on people and the planet. She is the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy where she leads and coordinates the organization’s scientific efforts.
Her areas of expertise include science communication, greenhouse gas emission, and developing and applying high-resolution climate projections for assessing regional to local-scale impacts of climate change on human systems and the natural environment. She holds a BSc in physics from the University of Toronto and an MS and PhD in atmospheric science from the University of Illinois and has received numerous awards and recognitions for her work, including four honorary doctorates and being named a United Nations Champion of the Earth.
Rev. Mariama White-Hammond was appointed as Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space in April 2021. In this role, she oversees policy and programs on energy, climate change, food justice, historic preservation, and open space. Over the course of her time with the City, she has supported the amendment of the Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO) to set carbon targets for existing large buildings and convened a city-led green jobs program.
Rev. Mariama was born and raised in Boston and began her community engagement in high school, mostly pointedly with Project HIP-HOP (Highways Into the Past - History, Organizing, and Power), a youth organization focused on teaching the history of the Civil Rights Movement and engaging a new generation of young people in activism. After college, she became the Executive Director of Project HIP-HOP, where she served for 13 years. In 2017, she graduated with her Master of Divinity at the Boston University School of Theology and was ordained an elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 2018, she founded New Roots AME Church in Dorchester where she currently pastors.
Rev. Mariama uses an intersectional lens in her ecological work, challenging folks to see the connections between immigration and climate change or the relationship between energy policy and economic justice. She has received numerous awards, including the Barr Fellowship, the Celtics Heroes Among Us, The Roxbury Founders Day Award, and the Boston NAACP Image Award. She was selected as one of the Grist 50 Fixers for 2019 and Sojourners 11 Women Shaping the Church.
David Sittenfeld serves as Director for the Center for the Environment at the Museum of Science, Boston. Dr. Sittenfeld has been an educator at the Museum for approximately 25 years, overseeing special projects and network-scale activities pertaining to issues that lie at the intersection of science and society. He served as principal investigator for the NOAA-funded Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities project and co-PI for the Science Center Public Forums project, which implemented community-based science-to-civics activities at 30 US science centers on extreme heat, drought, extreme precipitation, and sea level rise. David led the Wicked Hot Boston and Wicked Hot Mystic projects, which identified heat and air quality-related vulnerabilities in over 20 communities in and around Boston through community-engaged participatory science. David holds a Ph.D. from Northeastern University, where he researched participatory methods and geospatial modeling and visualization techniques about climate-related hazards.
Presenting Organization
Topics
Adult Education Courses Science
Contact
SubSpace (subspace@mos.org, (617) 589-2500)
The Museum of Science and its Center for the Environment are honored to welcome Professor Katharine Hayhoe, Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy, for a special one-night-only evening of conversation focused on her research and work around understanding the impacts of climate change on people and our planet.
During a time of ongoing severe flooding and record-breaking heatwaves across our nation, Hayhoe and the work of The Nature Conservancy are vital players in activating public awareness, conversation, and advocacy around real-time climate issues, aiming to slow global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the year 2030 through global collaboration. This fall, she takes the stage of the Museum with a call to action for communities worldwide to come together to provide the solutions our planet needs.
Joined in conversation by Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space for the City of Boston.
Following the program, share your voice and participate in an interactive conversation with other attendees in the Blue Wing, focused on how communities like Boston build resilience for dealing with weather and climate-related hazards in the coming decades. This facilitated conversation is designed to gather the opinions of a diverse range of people from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. You don't need to have knowledge about the topic to participate.
This program is free, thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute.